GILBERT AND SULLIVAN FOR SCHOOLS
Sir,-I feel that Gilbert and Sullivan should be included in the school curriculum side by side with Dickens and Shakespeare. Let all schools produce a Gilbert and Sullivan opera a year as part of the curriculum. Our young people enjoy tremendously the exquisite rhythm of both words and music. Many years have been lost in prohibiting many selections from programmes on account of the costly royalties, but the NBS has no excuse. The high ‘price of the records would be repaid a thousandfold in the educational value to our youth. They should be repeated and repeated and explained on all stations. Let us have a Gilbert and Sullivan season each year, right through the Dominion and linked up with Australia, sharing expenses of soloists and costumes and scenery. Again, the band concerts in the various rotundas in the city of Christchurch give good, well-balanced programmes; but could dance music be selected with the express purpose of encouraging dancing on the green? Tickle the feet and start with rhythm; it all has an influence farreaching. Music has power to form character. The village green still holds a big future for a little imagination. In cooperation with the various swords .and folk dancing clubs of the Dominion happy hours could be spent, not neglecting the community sing. All these pleasures have a health value too and at present are inclined to be done too much indoors. The rhythm will enable youth to hear what as yet he cannot
see:
CORRIE ASLIN McLAREN
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 7
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